Charlotte Leslie MP: The Good Will of the EU v the Brute Facts of border control

Abusing those of us who call for extending the transitional controls of Romanians and Bulgarians for another five years solves nothing. The EU needs to change.

Iain Dale: Cameron in China – pass the sick bag

Also: Could Mitchell return as Chief Whip? Why I despair of the Party’s internet strategy. How to write CVs. Why I must be mad. And finally: don’t say “If you like”.

Lewis Baston: The general election of 1923 – and lessons it holds for today

1923-24 reminds one of the intricate relationship between conservatism, liberalism and the Conservative Party, a story that is far from over.

Henry Hill: Parties sounded out on a new flag for Northern Ireland

Also: First Green MSP breaks ranks to support the Union; and Scotland and Wales get very different PISA results.

Stephen Tall: The agony of the Tory modernisers

John Major, William Hague, Michael Howard, David Cameron – all promised to win over new converts, all ended up preaching to the choir. And still no sign of the promised land: an outright majority.

Michael Williams: China’s bullying has intimidated Cameron, but united the rest of Asia against Beijing.

The Prime Minister might delicately suggest to his hosts that the China-driven increase in East Asian tensions is not conducive to good business relations.

Priti Patel MP: Why Conservatives must end the free movement of EU peoples as we know it

We must be able to ease the pressure on our infrastructure and public services – and remove access to benefits.

Iain Dale: Boris’s speech – a haranguing by the political equivalent of Dame Edna Everage

Plus: Get lost, Alex Salmond. My life with Polly Toynbee. Up yours, Jacqui Smith. Why libel lawyers are leeches. And…Fired!!! My Norfolk agony.

Book Review. Adrian Hilton: Daniel Hannan’s hymn to Anglosphere exceptionalism

His ‘How We Invented Freedom’ is a lovely essay. Oh, and we talk about ‘Western’ values just to be polite to the Germans, French and Spanish.

Henry Hill: Both sides pretend Scottish referendum is about their own specific policy proposals, again

Also: Welsh FM would block currency union; Police find no evidence of ‘Yes’ hacking claims; Dissidents bomb Belfast; Universal Credit reaches Scotland.

Garvan Walshe: We’re well in the lead against Iran, but it’s only half time.

Saturday’s agreement is only interim. It gives the world another six months to avoid war.

Charlotte Leslie MP: As false victims tread their Dance of Denial, don’t let it distact you from the real ones

Consider the contrast between those who cast themselves as victims – the David Nicholsons and Andy Burnhams – and those who are truly vulnerable.

Iain Dale: It was ignorance, not gay sex, that stopped Flowers doing his job

Also: On admiring Paul Sykes, wishing Farage a speedy recovery, my strange dream (watch, out Greg Clark)…and why Miliband is making a twat of himself.

Henry Hill: Ex-RUC demand Haass not draw “moral equivalence between police officers and criminals”

Also: Treasury defines limits of possible Welsh tax devolution; SNP and Tories vote down ban on spare-room subsidy evictions.

Peter Hoskin: A film that stands out from the crowd

Politics and the media? That couldn’t be a topical subject, could it? In any case, it’s certainly one of the subjects covered by Elia Kazan’s 1957 film ‘A Face in the Crowd’.